Interim Announcements

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NIST Standard for Key Wrap Algorithms

Subject: announcement
From: Morris Dworkin 
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 14:13:47 -0500 (20:13 CET)
To: newsletter@iacr.org

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is serving as the 
editor of a standard for key wrap algorithms that is in development within 
Accredited Standards Committee X9, Financial Services, Inc.  On behalf of 
the X9F1 working group, NIST requests a cryptographic review of the four 
algorithms that have been proposed for the standard.  A  document that 
specifies the algorithms and suggests security models for their analysis is 
available at the Cryptology ePrint Archive:  
    http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/340/ .  
Comments will be accepted until May 21, 2005.

(3-Jan-2005)

ECRYPT - Call for Stream Cipher Primitives

From: Robshaw M 
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:43:07 -0000 (12:43 CET)

Just in case you missed out on mailings from different sources, you may be
interested to know that ECRYPT has made a call for stream cipher primitives.
More information is available at http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/stream/ - please
feel free to publicise this effort widely. 

Cheers
Matt

(3-Jan-2005)


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